‘Assessing Impact: Private Sector Business Research’ was the title of David Docherty’s presentation at the UK IRC Annual Innovation Summit held at Cambridge Judge Business School today. This year’s conference, ‘Re-thinking the Impact of Innovation’, sought to draw on international, public and private sector experience of best practices adopted when attempting to assess the impact [...]
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Archive: 2010
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Tuesday, 7 December, 2010
David Docherty presents at UK IRC Annual Innovation Summit 2010
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Wednesday, 1 December, 2010
David Docherty discusses employer needs for postgraduate talent
CIHE’s Chief Executive, David Docherty, addressed two events on Wednesday 1 December 2010, discussing how postgraduate talent can best meet the needs of business. The events were: A New University Challenge: High Level Skills for the Future, hosted by Inside Government. The 9th Annual Postgraduate Conference: The right university, the right degree, the best student [...]
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Tuesday, 23 November, 2010
CIHE welcomes new high profile business members
The Council for Industry and Higher Education is pleased to welcome four new senior executives to its business membership. These include: Channel 4’s Chief Executive David Abraham; Compass Group UK and Ireland’s Group Managing Director Ian Sarson; CISCO UK & Ireland’s Vice President Phil Smith, and Vice President of Global Education Michael Stevenson. These new members bring [...]
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Friday, 19 November, 2010
From bright sparks to brilliant businesses
The best industrial eco-systems have powerful university–business interactions as part of their chemistry. Building on the 2006 study Oxford Entrepreneurs published by CIHE, Saïd Business School yesterday launched a new book, From Bright Sparks to Brilliant Businesses. Profiling University of Oxford spin-outs, it demonstrates the need for government to help foster an environment that rewards such [...]
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Wednesday, 17 November, 2010
Richard Lambert addresses CIHE event on the future of business-university collaboration
CBI director-general Richard Lambert set out the future of business-university collaboration at the inaugural Council for Industry and Higher Education (CIHE) Annual Lecture on Thursday 11 November. Richard discussed how the combination of Lord Browne’s report on university funding and the outcome of the Spending Review will shape the way that businesses and universities are [...]
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Tuesday, 9 November, 2010
David writes for the Times Higher: Show business that good graduates are well worth paying for
David Docherty, Chief Executive of CIHE has written a comment piece for the Times Higher stating that the onus is on universities to find ways to draw in vital corporate investment in a post-cuts landscape. David writes: “The Browne Review hit a giant reset button for higher education in England, and a new operating system [...]
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Friday, 5 November, 2010
David Docherty: “Stem has become a lazy way of thinking about the world”
David Docherty, CIHE’s Chief Executive has been interviewed by the FT about the importance of a variety of skills within the workplace. The article asks whether the focus on so-called ‘Stem subjects’ – science, technology, engineering and maths – recently called for again by the CBI, could be a mistake. It reports on the growing [...]
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Thursday, 4 November, 2010
CIHE to host key event ‘Graduate Talent’
EDIT: THIS EVENT IS IN THE PAST The Council for Industry and Higher Education is hosting a conference to bring together thought leaders from government, industry and education to encourage debate about the latest skills needs and discover new opportunities for collaboration in support of them. The event is taking place on the 17 November [...]
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Tuesday, 5 October, 2010
How to add value to your business in 2010
CIHE’s David Docherty addressed an event entitled ‘PhDs: How to add value to your business 2010’ on 28 September 2010. David presented the findings from CIHE’s Talent Fishing as part of his presentation ‘One Step Beyond’. The presentation can be found here. The event also heard from Dr Calum Leckie (Careers Advisor, University College London), [...]
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Thursday, 23 September, 2010
David Docherty addresses UK Research conference
David this morning addressed the UK Research conference in London about Optimising knowledge transfer and collaboration. He spoke about the need for universities to have the ‘right’ relationships with business alongside the need for businesses to absorb university research. David referenced a number of key recommendations made to Research Councils UK in CIHE’s ‘Absorbing Research’ [...]
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Wednesday, 8 September, 2010
In the news: The Fuse
The Council for Industry and Higher Education’s first Task Force report which urges far-reaching changes to ensure the UK is a leader in the creative, digital and information technology industries has been launched today. Press coverage Call to support digital hub – Financial Times Reports on the call to the coalition government to do more [...]
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Wednesday, 8 September, 2010
CIHE Task Force urges far-reaching changes to ensure UK is a leader in the creative, digital and information technology industries
The UK’s future economic prosperity relies, in part, on the ability of government, industry and universities to spark rapid growth in its Creative, Digital and Information Technology businesses, according to The Fuse a report published by the Council for Industry and Higher Education (CIHE) today (Wednesday 8 September). The landmark report presents a series of [...]
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Wednesday, 21 July, 2010
Talent Fishing findings shared at UKCGE conference
The findings of CIHE’s Talent Fishing report were presented to the UK Council for Graduate Education’s summer conference earlier this month by Associate Director Helen Connor. The presentation entitled ‘Employers’ perspectives on the value of Postgraduate Education’ included key findings such as the high demand and strong satisfaction with higher degrees and concerns about the [...]
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Friday, 18 June, 2010
More calls from business chiefs to protect universities
As Universities Week draws to a close business leaders have again highlighted the “vital contribution” that universities make to the economy. In a letter to the Telegraph senior executives from companies including CIHE members Shell and Centrica, have said the Government “must ensure it supports innovation” and that the university sector, which generates £59 billion annually, [...]
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Wednesday, 16 June, 2010
Universities Week generating celebrity support
As we are half way through Universities Week the campaign is gathering celebrity support from no other than Stephen Fry who tweeted this morning: “[It’s] Universities Week – help support great institutions of which we can be so proud”. A recognised supporter of the campaign he has said: “I cannot believe that anything I am [...]
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Tuesday, 7 December, 2010
